a disease that weakens the heart muscle, making it harder for the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
From Greek 'kardia' (heart), 'mys' (muscle), and 'pathos' (disease). Medical professionals combined these Greek roots to name this condition when it was scientifically identified.
Most medical terms are built from ancient Greek and Latin roots, meaning doctors literally use a 2,000-year-old language system to describe modern diseases.
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